Workman and Soldier: A Tale of Paris Life During the Siege and the Rule of the Commune

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Griffith and Farran, 1880 - 343 páginas
 

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Página 156 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Página 313 - There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night ; And grief may bide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light.
Página 330 - Our Soldiers, or ANECDOTES OF THE CAMPAIGNS AND GALLANT DEEDS OF THE BRITISH ARMY DURING THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA. By WHG KINGSTON. With Frontispiece.
Página 185 - To each his sufferings; all are men Condemned alike to groan, The tender for another's pain, The unfeeling for his own.
Página 230 - Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Página 339 - Gd. cloth. Theory and Practice of the Metric System of Weights and Measures. By Professor LEONE LEVI, FSA, FSS Third Edition. Sewed Is.
Página 124 - I HEARD the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good- will to men ! And thought how, as the day had come, The belfries of all Christendom Had rolled along The unbroken song Of peace on earth, good-will to men...
Página 16 - The poor wretch, who has learnt his only prayers From curses, who knows scarcely words enough To ask a blessing from his Heavenly Father, Becomes a fluent phraseman, absolute And technical in victories and defeats, And all our dainty terms for fratricide...
Página 329 - Four Seasons (The) ; A Short Account of the Structure of Plants, being Four Lectures written for the "Working Men's Institute, Paris. With Illustrations. Imperial 16mo.
Página 326 - MASTERPIECES OF ANTIQUE ART. From the celebrated collections in the Vatican, the Louvre, and the British Museum. By STEPHEN THOMPSON, Author of "Old English Homes,

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